OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + Germany 1925-1955: the people and the state June 2018 question paper J410/02

Outline the impact of the worldwide economic depression on international relations in Europe in

the 1930s.

Explain why the USA got more involved in the war in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Study Interpretation A.

Do you think this interpretation is a fair comment on the policy of Appeasement? Use your

knowledge and other interpretations of Appeasement to support your answer.

Study Interpretation B.

Explain why not all historians and commentators have agreed with this interpretation. Use other

interpretations and your knowledge to support your answer.

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Interpretation B

America’s leaders often whipped up Cold War fears that were very exaggerated. These at times frightened its allies but also deepened divisions at home. However, whether the Cold War could have been managed much less dangerously is doubtful. This is because of the way Stalin and his successors operated, and because of the refusal of American policy-makers to retreat from their grand expectations of their role in the post-war world.

From ‘Grand Expectations’, written by the US historian James Patterson and published in the USA in 1996.

Describe denazification in Germany after the end of the Second World War.

Explain why the Nazis persecuted some groups in Germany after 1933.

Study Sources A and B. Is one source more useful than the other about the lives of women in Nazi

Germany?

The front cover of a women’s magazine produced by the Nazi Party, from the late 1930s.

Source B

Today, men are being educated against marriage. Men meet together in clubs and groups while women remain in the shadow of loneliness. We see our daughters growing up with aimless lives, living only in the vague hope of getting a man and having children. A son, even the youngest, laughs in his mother’s face. He sees her as a servant, and women in general as tools of his aims.

An extract from a letter to Hitler from several women, published in a local German newspaper in 1934.

8* ‘The Nazis were only able to take power because of the impact on Germany of the worldwide

economic depression.’ How far do you agree with this statement?